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  • From: Yigal Levin <Yigal.Levin AT biu.ac.il>
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  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Early and late biblical Hebrew
  • Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:01:56 +0200

This passage in Zechariah envisions a future time in which Jerusalem will be
so populous that its walls will no longer hold its population, and the city
will thus be "perazot - unwalled". This use of perazot is quite common. Some
scholars have speculated that the title "perizi", as one of the pre-Israelite
Canaanite groups, thus refers to those who lived in unwalled towns
(villages?). In fact, passages such as Deut. 3:5 seem to indicate just that.
But is this always so? Or might "Perizi" also be an ethnonym, without
connection to a certain type of settlement? Might the Perizi once have all
lived in Perazot, but later also in walled cities and were still called by
their old name? Who knows.


Yigal Levin

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:b-hebrew-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Isaac Fried
Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2011 8:06 PM
To: jimstinehart AT aol.com
Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org; david.l.steinberg AT rogers.com
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Early and late biblical Hebrew

PRAZOT TE$EB YRU$ALAIM ... Zechariah 2:8

פרזות תשב ירושלם מרב אדם ובהמה בתוכה

Isaac Fried, Boston University


On Nov 25, 2011, at 6:40 PM, jimstinehart AT aol.com wrote:

> The PRZY did not live “spread out”. The most famous PRZY lived
> in Jerusalem.

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